Digital Media
Attitudes and Behaviours of Consumers in the Digital Age: Policy Bulletin
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy proposes a new framework for looking at the consumption decisions made by consumers. This interdisciplinary conceptual framework views all types of consumer behaviour, both legal and illegal, as a rational response to a particular set of choices.
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): SABIP
Changing Attitudes and Behaviour in the 'Non-Internet' Digital World and their Implications for Intellectual Property
A review of changing attitudes and behaviour towards non-internet sharing of digital media. The report identifies a new framework for looking at the consumption decisions made by consumers.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: January 2010
Author(s): BOP Consulting
Changing Business Models in the Creative Industries
This research examines the business model response to the change from analogue to digital in the creative industries.
Looking at both traditional and emerging business models, the project focuses on three sectors: television, computer games and music.
A series of six case studies, two from each sector, provide illustrative cases of the business model response to challenges to enforcement of copyright and the advent of digital technologies.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Dr. Nicola Searle
This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour in the Digital Age: Research Options
In early 2010, BOP Consulting was commissioned to identify relevant research options available to generate longitudinal data about consumer attitudes and behaviour. This short report sets out BOP’s proposals and provides indicative timescales and costs.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): BOP Consulting
Copycats? Digital Consumers in the Online Age
An evaluation of web-based digital consumer behaviour and attitudes and their implications for intellectual property policy. Commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, it aims to provide a robust evidence base to help guide policy makers in this strategic area.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: May 2009
Author(s): Robin Hunt, Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands and David Nicholas (CIBER team, University College London).
The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research
A critical overview of the theoretical and empirical economic literature on copyright and unauthorised copying. This report aims to identify gaps in evidence and options for further research.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: May 2010
Author(s): Christian Handke (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Fake Nation? A Study into Everyday Crime
This publication details the background, empirical and analytical research undertaken during the Intellectual Property Theft and Organised Crime (IPTOC) project and provides a robust insight into contemporary consumption of counterfeit/pirated goods and illegal downloading.
Commissioned by: UK Patent Office (now IPO), Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF), British Video Association (BVA), British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Business Software Alliance (BSA), Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT)
Date published: 2005
Author(s): Dr Jo Bryce, Dr Jason Rutter
Future Copyright Development
This project engaged rights holders and users in a review of the copyright system to help set an agenda for future copyright policy.
Commissioned by: IPO, COI
Date
published: May 2009
Author(s): BMRB Social Research
Google Books - A Policy Panel Event
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy organised a panel debate in February 2010 to discuss the issues raised by the proposed Google Books settlement. It was attended by representatives from Google, authors, publishers, the EC, and a wide array of stakeholders from the UK creative community.
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): SABIP
International Perspectives on Moral Rights - A Policy Panel Event
A report summarising the proceedings of an event held on 23 March 2010, exploring international perspectives on moral rights from the perspective of the UK, the USA, France and developing countries. Practitioner perspectives are provided from musicians, photographers, the BBC and Nokia.
Date published: 2010
Author(s): SABIP
Private Copying and Fair Compensation
A study on the operation of levies on copying media and equipment in the EU. This report offers the first independent empirical assessment of the European levy system as a whole.
The research consolidates the evidence on levy setting, collection and distribution; reviews the scope of consumer permissions associated with levy payments; and reports the results of three product level studies (printer/scanners, portable music/video/game devices, and tablet computers), analysing the relationship between VAT, levy tariffs and retail prices in 20 levy and non-levy countries.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Professor Martin Kretschmer
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This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
The Relationship Between Copyright and Contract Law
A review of the relationship between copyright and contract law addressing both supply- and demand-side issues. It covers legal and economic perspectives on copyright and contracts.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): Martin Kretschmer (Bournemouth University), Estelle Derclaye (University of Nottingham), Marcella Favale (University of Nottingham), Richard Watt (Canterbury University).
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) 2009-10 Annual Report
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy
(SABIP) was established in June 2008, as an advisory Non-Departmental Public Body. SABIP's objective was to give Ministers and the Chief Executive of the IPO independent policy advice
based on solid evidence.
The report covers the period from
1 April 2009 to 30 July 2010 when SABIP was dissolved.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: 2011
Author(s): SABIP
© The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age
This work looks ahead to how copyright can tackle the challenges of the digital age, drawing on previous work including Digital Britain and the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, on international perspectives and views from stakeholders.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): BIS, IPO